From A Native American Clinton Appointee: 'The Party's Over: Good Democrats Don't Follow the DNC'
The Party's Over: Good Democrats Don't Follow the DNCHarold Monteau - IndianCountry
2/23/16
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I am greatly disappointed by the actions of the Democratic National Committee of late. The DNC is not supposed to be a Super Pac for one candidate. But they sure have been one sided in support of the establishment candidate. I guess we can’t be surprised knowing that the person running it used to be (and maybe still is) one candidate’s campaign director.
I’m receiving a lot of criticism from some of my peers, especially Native women, for “bashing” Hillary. Facts are not bashing. Any candidate should be willing to answer to facts about their professional conduct and actions. Yes, I do support Bernie Saunders and I do hope he gets the nomination, but if he does not, I will vote for Hillary. She is definitely not my first choice and I certainly won’t be bullied into not sharing my opinion. I’m doing what every good Democrat should do, and that is to not follow the DNC blindly. And I certainly won’t vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. Yes, it would be a nice achievement and advancement for this country to be led by a woman, but I don’t think this is the time. This is the time to take our country and its government back from the billionaires and their Wall Street minions.
It is a fact that the Clintons have earned over $150 million in personal income from speaking fees and much of it from Wall Street and corporations. Perhaps some of it was paid to their foundation, but it certainly has put the Clintons in an elite income bracket.
It is a fact that Hillary, between the time she left the State Department and now, has been paid roughly $30 million in speaking fees from the Wall Street bankers and corporations and industry organizations. That is personal income. Not donations to her Super Pac. No one in their right mind is going to believe that “she can’t be bought” and that she can follow through to any great degree to fix Wall Street. She cannot bite the hand that feeds her and then expect their support for re-election. That is reality. Let’s be realistic on that account.
I don’t like that she has vowed to continue President Obama’s legacy and policies because his was and is a Wall Street administration. Unfortunately, it is little known that the Obama Administration has had dozens of Wall Street appointees serving in the 1st and 2nd tier positions. These people came from the same banks and corporations that put us in a “recession” and robbed the middle class and the working poor of what little savings and assets we had. Then, to avoid a depression and to avoid the crash of the to-big-to-fail banks and investment insurers, they robbed us again by using our tax money to bail those people out. People don’t know that Eric Holder’s law firm represented some of those banks before he was Attorney General and that he went right back out the White House door to again join the firm and represent those banks again. He also pretty much refused to press for criminal charges against the key figures from Wall Street who lead the culture of greed that caused the recession.
I do not think that the poor and former middle class, which is now the new working class, can afford another eight years of Wall Street administration. I know we cannot continue to have a White House and a Congress that are so beholding to the billionaires and their Wall Street minions that there is no political will to pass more than lip service on real reforms.
Yes, I did work in President Clinton’s administration as a political appointee and Hillary may have been responsible for that appointment. And, yes...
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Couldn't agree with Mr. Monteau more, and I'm very glad he spoke out. 
As we're well aware, that takes some guts (which too few have).
But my grandfather is native Hawaiian. Guess when the Yoshida family came to Hawaii, there were some attractions in the Native community
The Blacks who vote for Hillary are only voting out of fear of Trump.
Or only voting out of misplaced loyalty to Bill Clinton, the so-called First Black President.
AND overarching both of those reasons is many of them are only getting their information from mainstream media.
Which INCLUDES certain places on the internet as well.
But MORE Blacks are actually looking at Bernie.
The mainstream media won't highlight that because it ruins the image of Hillary's "Firewall".
The mainstream media AKA the Establishment is trying to help Hillary win at all costs.
Remember how she was supposed to have Latinos in Nevada in the bag?
Didn't happen, did it?
Bernie Sanders is the Biggest Outsider ever to come this far.
Trump is not an outsider overall. He's just outside the Republican Power Brokers.
But he IS a Billionaire & will protect Billionaire interests.
He IS the 0.01%.
Bernie is NOT part of that 0.01%.
And he's winning while NOT being that 0.01% or associated with that 0.01%.
Bernie is proving that integrity matters & his power will grow by leaps & bounds each & every month.
There's a reason why Hillary is pulling out all the stops getting folks like John Lewis to lie for her about Bernie's record.
Why the Clinton News Network is playing an entire Hillary ad right in Bernie's face to the nation while posing it as a Town Hall question.
Why Hillary's shenanigans work in the corrupt caucus systems of Iowa & Nevada.
Hillary knows that if she doesn't stop him now she will NEVER be able to stop him & it will be 2008 all over again.
The difference is Bernie has no SuperPAC ties like Obama did.
It's not just a question of the Kingmakers picking a new candidate for King/Queen.
It's that the Kingmakers are not going to be in chage of the decision AT ALL.
The Outsider is crashing their party & he will win from the Outside.
The People's Champ will get his rise from The People. The Everyday People.
The Common People. The Workaday People. The Poor People.
They are TERRIFIED at that possibility becoming reality.
They know that what Bernie says won't just stop at the campaign.
He means what he says 100% & he will achieve what he says.
That's why they're going to keep promoting the myth that Blacks are on Hillary's side.
Even the Blacks who are supporting her now will change tack overnight as soon as they see that Bernie is in the lead.
Same thing happened in 2008 with Obama.
The more Bernie wins, the more you can't ignore him.
That's why he infiltrated the Democratic Party.
So he could be on TV during the debates.
3rd party candidates can't usually go anywhere if they don't get on big media.
When Bernie is done he will FINALLY transform this weak wimpy party into a fortress of social/economic JUSTICE.
Some here are caught up in that Team Democrat mentality & are fighting him.
But what he's doing is for their own good.
They'll have a Team worth getting caught up in once he's done.
Don't get too caught up in what the leaders of a group support in this election.
Pay closer attention to the rank-and-file.
I just got banned from the Hillary Clinton part of this forum for making the following post:
They'll be supporting Bernie soon. Just like Eric's daughter Erica
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110753696#post20
Eric Garner's mother may be backing Hillary...
...But Eric Garner's daughter is backing Bernie.
Before long Eric Garner's mother & all those other mothers who suffered those injustices will be backing Bernie too.
I don't hold it against them that they got behind Hillary.
They don't really know Hillary yet. And they think she's the strongest candidate because of that formidable Clinton Machine.
But Bernie will tear down that Machine & show that HE'S the REAL power in this race.
After Super Tuesday you'll see what I'm talking about.
And South Carolina might not be as in favor of Hillary as you may think.
I live in Georgia right next door.
By the time Bernie gets to Georgia, you'll see the results.
Love your posts once again & keep on posting.
You have such a fresh & positive point of view.
John Lucas
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